JfOTES ON SEDUM lol 



in my plant I hesitate either definitely to assign it to hceticum or to 

 question Wolley-Dod's uniting of hceticum and Winkleri. But 

 Miss Luckhani's plant is so distinct and so near bceticum that it seems 

 best to place it there. 



Sedum (Sect. Telepiiifm) Taquetii, sp. nov. 



Species coreana S. Telepldo L., 'S'. maxinio Suter, *S^. alhoroseo 

 ^ Baker, affinis, a quibus omnibus Horibus majoribus viridi-purpureis 

 maxiraeque carpellis longioribus apice divergentibus distinguitur ; 

 *S'. maximo et S. alborosea proxima ; cum priore fuliis sessilibus, cum 

 altero Horibus bicoloratis concordat ; habitu S. alhoroseo appropinquat 

 sed color ejus specie! pallide viridis abest, foliis cauleque colorem atro- 

 viridem *S'. Telephii habentibus. 



ilerha glabra perennis. Gauclex brevis, carnosissimus, radices 

 tuberosas fusit'ornies emittens. Caules annul, ereeti, simplices, satis 

 robusti, leves, teretes, infra nodos incrassati, 1-1| pedales, triente 

 superiore ramos adscendentes nonnullos saepe emittentes. Folia 

 opposita, sessilia, internodia aequantia aut superantia, elliptica, basi et 

 apice rotundata, leviter obtuseque dentata, carnosa, atroviridia + pur- 

 pureo-punctata, 6-8' cm. longa, 3—1 cm. lata. Gorymhi terminales et 

 laterales, satis densi, rotundati, 2'5-5 cm. diametro, laterales ad ter- 

 minales non pertinentes. Flares 5-meri, ad 9 mm. longi, magni- 

 tudine satis variabiles pedicellos sequantes. Calyx viridis, carnosus, 

 segmentis lanceolatis vel deltoideis, obtusis, 2 mm. longis, parte 

 concreta 1 mm. longa. Petala lineari-lanceolata, obtusiuscula, caly- 

 cem quadruplo superantia, ad 9 mm. longa, pallide viridia, prope 

 basim albescentia. Stamina 10, corollam sequantia, filamentis albes- 

 centibus, antheris ovatis pallide rubris epipetalis triente inferiore 

 adnatis. Squaince ligulatae, strictte, emarginatae, quadruplo longiores 

 quam latiores, albescentes, apice ttavaj. Carpella longa, gracilia, 

 erecta, apicibus divergentibus in stylos breves attenuatis, infra 

 attenuata, corollam aequantia vel paullo superantia, viridia, purpureo- 

 lineata, parte superiore lateris interni atropurpurea. 



Hab. Korea. 



Specimens were received in 1915 from, the Upsala University 

 Botanic Garden, and when I reported the species as requiring study, 

 the Curator very kindly sent his only plant, which I have had under 

 observation for two seasons. It was labelled " Sedum sp. Korea 

 spont.. Abbe Taqiiet. Wien. Dendrol. Ges. 1913." I have not been 

 able to match it at Kew or the British Museum. 



In the size of its flowers (petals up to 9 mm. long), and especially 

 of its carpels (up to 10 inui.) this species differs from all others of 

 section Telephium, in which the petals and carpels are mostly 4 mm. 

 long, the largest being S. spectahile Boreau, with petals and carpels 

 attaining (3 nun. S. anrjustum Maxim., Hoatliornianum Diels, verti- 

 cillatum L., viridescens Nakai, and viiuparnm Maxim., are separated 

 (among other characters) by their 3-4 or 4-5 verticillate leaves ; and 

 ccerulans Leveille & Vaniot, Icagamontanum Maxim., Telephium L., 

 and sordidu7n Maxim., by having their leaves alternate. There 

 remain of the ei'ebt-stemmed Telephiums only S. viride Makino, 



